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LouisianaHB 10722026 Regular SessionHouse

TRANSPORTATION DEPT: Reforms certain powers, duties, and responsibilities in the office of Louisiana Highway Construction (EN SEE FISC NOTE SD EX)

Sponsored By: Ryan Bourriaque (Republican)

Signed by Governor

Transportation, Highways and Public Works

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

3 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Louisiana highway office gains broader project authority

The Office of Louisiana Highway Construction can make agreements with the state transportation department for work on federal-aid highway segments. Covered work includes design, construction, fixing damage, major repairs, and replacement. Federal law must allow the agreement, and no federal money can pay for the work. Each agreement must spell out the work, funding shares, and rules the project must follow.

Louisiana highway office controls state road funds

Only the Office of Louisiana Highway Construction now uses State Highway Improvement Fund money, replacing the state transportation department. This money is limited to state-system roads outside the federal system, which are not eligible for federal funding. It covers design, preventive maintenance, repairs, restoration, improvements, planning, surveys, engineering, land for road rights-of-way, and moving utilities. It can also pay a parish or city government for accepting ownership of an eligible road under state law. The office can receive transfers from other agencies, state general fund money, and other funding allowed by law.

Louisiana highway office expands no-bid purchasing

The highway office can use emergency purchasing procedures for any purpose through December 31, 2027, replacing the January 1, 2026 expiration. Its executive director can certify an emergency and waive contracting rules only as much as needed to address it. With the director's recommendation, emergency purchases and purchases or leases of noncompetitive or patented items can skip bidding; key approval documents must give explicit reasons. After a flood or other disaster disrupts normal use of a nonfederal-aid highway or office-controlled facility, the director can authorize no-bid purchases for temporary repairs. Temporary repairs must cover only minimum needs until permanent repairs are possible, and planning for permanent repairs must start immediately.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Ryan Bourriaque

    Republican • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 147 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/13/2026

Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

Yes: 37 • No: 0

House vote • 4/13/2026

Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

Yes: 94 • No: 0

House vote • 4/7/2026

Reported with amendments

Yes: 16 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Signed by the Governor. Becomes Act No. 333.

    5/22/2026House

  2. Effective date: 05/22/2026.

    5/22/2026House

  3. Sent to the Governor for executive approval.

    5/19/2026House

  4. Received from the Senate without amendments.

    5/18/2026House

  5. Enrolled and signed by the Speaker of the House.

    5/18/2026House

  6. Signed by the President of the Senate.

    5/18/2026Senate

  7. Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.

    5/13/2026Senate

  8. Reported without Legislative Bureau amendments. Read by title and passed to third reading and final passage.

    5/5/2026Senate

  9. Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.

    5/4/2026Senate

  10. Reported favorably.

    4/29/2026Senate

  11. Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    4/14/2026Senate

  12. Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 94, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.

    4/13/2026House

  13. Received in the Senate. Rules suspended. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.

    4/13/2026Senate

  14. Scheduled for floor debate on 04/13/2026.

    4/9/2026House

  15. Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.

    4/8/2026House

  16. Reported with amendments (16-0).

    4/7/2026House

  17. Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Transportation, Highways and Public Works.

    3/31/2026House

  18. Read by title. Lies over under the rules.

    3/30/2026House

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